This week’s interview is with CNN newsman Jake Tapper, host of The Lead with Jake Tapper, weekdays at 4 pm eastern. (As well as still being sent to every disaster and war zone that pops up.) Jake gets into some of his earlier history, including the fact that he was a cartoonist first and basically […]

This was a discussion which CNN’s Jake Tapper kicked off this week on Twitter and it led to quite a bit of debate. A New York Times article from the weekend takes the rather unusual position that some veterans may not be looking for a “thank you” from civilians when they return home. In fact, […]

Plus: “Gruber is an incessant self promoter, he likes contracts, he likes money, he likes recognition, he likes running his mouth."

Last night, Noah posted the 2-minute video from American Commitment on Gruberama that he called “positively enraging.” Not too many media outlets have responded to this story very well, but Jake Tapper at CNN has been an exception to that rule. Today, Tapper offers a four-minute video that not only will enrage but enlighten on […]

It’s becoming a groundswell. Relatively embattled Democrats facing the voters this fall have been abandoning the president’s position on a limited travel ban on Ebola-affected regions of West Africa in droves. Last week, Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Kay Hagan (D-NC) expressed some support a limited travel ban. On Monday, they were joined by Sen. […]

There are plenty of legitimate concerns over Barack Obama’s competency, but not just because of Leon Panetta’s new memoir. Hugh Hewitt interviewed CNN host Jake Tapper last night to discuss the fallout from Panetta’s book, which reveals that the White House sometimes just prefers to make no decision at all and let issues become moot. […]

Here’s another piece of great news about the security of the US, after this morning’s exposure of the resumé of home-grown jihadi Abdirahmaan Muhumed as an airport worker at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. Last night, Jake Tapper interviewed former CIA agent Bob Baer, who soothed the nation about the threat of infiltration by ISIS into the […]

CNN host Jake Tapper had some discouraging news for those who would prefer to see not only Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson go to trial but be convicted for his role in the slaying of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Getting a conviction, let alone creating a case which would see the inside of a courtroom, will […]

Human rights attorney and former Palestinian Liberation Organization legal advisor Diana Buttu was completely disarmed by CNN host Jake Tapper on Thursday, and he didn’t even appear to be trying that hard. Buttu denied that Hamas has fired rockets into Israel nearly every month since the unilateral pullout of the Gaza Strip in 2005, she […]

The definition of a “gaffe” in politics, the columnist Michael Kinsley observed, “is when a politician tells the truth.” Hillary Clinton told the truth today, and she probably regrets it. Clinton’s first gaffe of the day was revealed in a clip of an interview she gave ABC’s Diane Sawyer. In that interview, Clinton attempted to […]

Oh. Snap. CNN’s Jake Tapper took White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough to task this afternoon for the Obama administration’s costly lack of hustle when it comes to dealing with the instances of waste/fraud/abuse in their midst, rather pointedly asking, “How many stories like this, how many letters like this, how many dead veterans […]

Via the Hugh Hewitt Show, he means “lying,” I think, but I’ll let the man choose his own words. He doesn’t say which comments specifically he finds insulting but it’s probably the one where Carney tried to convince everyone that Ben Rhodes was merely linking the Mohammed video to the protests around the region, not […]

Look, I don’t want to make the biggest deal in the world out of dumb tweets, but if your entire foreign policy philosophy amounts to, “We’re way super-smarter than the last guy who did this, and our super-smarts are going to change the world,” it behooves you not to tweet like a—well, I would say […]

It’s not that there isn’t still an important news story unfolding in the saga of California State Senator Leland Yee… there is. In fact, federal indictments were handed down on Friday and one of his alleged co-conspirators was ordered released on a quarter million dollars bail. But the fact is that there’s a fair chance […]

When you accept a repressive Russian ruler’s offer as a political escape hatch because your own ill-considered rhetoric put you in the awkward position of being a Nobel Peace Prize winner elected president as an anti-Bush who would “nation build at home” now half-heartedly lobbying the nation to go to war in Syria, that repressive […]

Jake Tapper got an exclusive interview with Barack Obama for CNN, which will air today, but CNN is already teasing some of the highlights and a short exchange on jobs. More intriguing, however, is an apparent concession on immigration. Despite his years-long insistence on path to citizenship being part of any comprehensive reform package, Obama […]

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"Why not give them if you intend on possibly seeking office someday?"

Not coverage, CNN’s Jake Tapper distinguishes for Hugh Hewitt, because Benghazi got a lot of coverage … as a White House story rather than a State Department story. That may be the difference in comparing media coverage, Tapper suggests, but agrees with Hewitt that the media has pressed Chris Christie much harder as the man […]

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"If not in one big, long, meaty piece then I think over and over and over again."

Alternate headline: Jake Tapper removed from debate moderator consideration. Yesterday, Jake Tapper discussed with Hugh Hewitt the sword of Damocles hanging over the head of Hillary Clinton as she considers whether (or when) to jump into the 2016 presidential race. Tapper figures that either the Clinton campaign will have to produce a comprehensive explanation of […]

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Oof.

So, it’s official, I suppose. The administration’s fallback, all-purpose talking point concerning ObamaCare is metastisizing from the “high volume,” “nineteen million unique visitors,” “high interest” line of obfuscation to include the “ObamaCare is so much more than a website” line that President Obama used in his infomercial speech outside the White House this morning. Hey, […]

"I haven’t heard Republicans comparing the Democrats to suicide bombers or to kidnappers or to arsonists."

I’m pretty sure this is the New Civility in action, right? David Plouffe was one of the chief architects of Hope and Change, where naked partisanship would give way to Team Obama’s sense of cool leadership, where the bitterness of the past would be eclipsed by pragmatic, ideology-free competence. More than four years in, how […]

The video here is instructive not because of the discussion that ensues, but because of the question Jake Tapper asks. DCCC chair Rep. Steve Israel can be relied upon to carry Barack Obama’s water on this subject and cry about the “politicization” of the debate over whether to authorize strikes on Syria, but the truth […]

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Scot free.

Precisely the right takeaway from this morning’s news about the Benghazi Four’s reinstatement, and for precisely the right reason. There were so many strands of possible wrongdoing related to the Benghazi attack — manipulation of the CIA talking points, scapegoating of the Mohammed moviemaker, lost opportunities for military action, alleged CIA intimidation of agents, and […]

I’m paraphrasing very loosely in the headline, but watch the clip. Tell me if it’s not a fair takeaway. And to think, Spitz is a CNN alum. Yowza. This isn’t the newsiest thing you’ll watch today but it’s probably the most enjoyable. By the way, contra that eye-popping Quinnipiac poll from last week showing Client […]

In order to understand just how badly the White House may have fumbled this ball, let’s go back to last week. Stephen Hayes at the Weekly Standard reported from Congressional sources on a White House-State Department e-mail string that made clear that the administration wanted the talking points on Benghazi massaged to protect sources and […]

It’s no secret that Fox News is not Barack Obama’s favorite news channel. In his first year, the White House more or less declared war on Fox, suspending its strategy only when other media outlets began to publicly criticize Obama for it, blocking the White House attempt to freeze Fox out of coverage. They may […]

Media deck-shuffling isn’t our usual beat but he’s built enough respect among conservatives as an atypically fair reporter that this is worth a post. Alternate headline: “CNN watchable again.” Tapper will anchor a weekday program on CNN. TVNewser hears it will be the 4pmET hour, currently filled by “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.” Tapper’s […]